IIW2007 Has Begun: Day One Activities

After months of preparation, IIW2007 has begun. Whew! I always feel
a big relief when the "train leaves the station" as Mike Jones said.

During the introductory presentation Eugene Kim asked how many
people were here for the first time and probably one-half two-thirds
of the audience stood up. That's great. He also asked how many
people had been at the first IIW in Berkeley and there were a dozen
or so people in that group.

We're starting off differently this year. We broke the group into
smaller groups of 7 or 8 and asked them to discuss the "key
questions" they brought to the workshop. The goal was to get people
introduced to each other as well as to some of the issues, and maybe
even some of the answers--at least the current thinking.

This is the concept map that came from the group discussion. To read
it, you'll need to click through to the highest resolution,
probably.

After project introductions, we held speed geeking. This is a
reprise of an event that debutted
at last December's IIW. We moved it to Monday to get people
interacting early and to leave time for tomorrow afternoon's OSIS
working sessions. Here's a list of the demos:

Higgins and idemix

Sxipper

Vidoop

CardSpace

bandit

OpenID Token Exchange Extension

Schemat Consumer

PIBB

OpenDS

Community Portal with SAML2, & CardSpace

Simple Identity for the Web

WSO2 Identity Solution

The afternoon finished up with the traditional address by Doc. Doc has had a powerful
vision of what user-centric identity can achieve, probably going back
to the Clue Train days. I love to hear him preach the gospel of
user-centric identity.